diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 597978aa53b2..2f5c5950cdb6 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -196,12 +196,12 @@
 /nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix                        @WilliButz
 
 # PHP interpreter, packages, extensions, tests and documentation
-/doc/languages-frameworks/php.section.md @NixOS/php
-/nixos/tests/php                         @NixOS/php
-/pkgs/build-support/build-pecl.nix       @NixOS/php
-/pkgs/development/interpreters/php       @NixOS/php @jtojnar
-/pkgs/development/php-packages           @NixOS/php
-/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix         @NixOS/php @jtojnar
+/doc/languages-frameworks/php.section.md          @NixOS/php @aanderse @etu @globin @ma27 @talyz
+/nixos/tests/php                                  @NixOS/php @aanderse @etu @globin @ma27 @talyz
+/pkgs/build-support/build-pecl.nix                @NixOS/php @aanderse @etu @globin @ma27 @talyz
+/pkgs/development/interpreters/php       @jtojnar @NixOS/php @aanderse @etu @globin @ma27 @talyz
+/pkgs/development/php-packages                    @NixOS/php @aanderse @etu @globin @ma27 @talyz
+/pkgs/top-level/php-packages.nix         @jtojnar @NixOS/php @aanderse @etu @globin @ma27 @talyz
 
 # Podman, CRI-O modules and related
 /nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix @NixOS/podman @zowoq
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu/default.nix
index 5aa8b2b4f9b1..0cfc7b4b44fd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu/default.nix
@@ -13,5 +13,10 @@ buildPecl {
   makeFlags = [ "phpincludedir=$(dev)/include" ];
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Userland cache for PHP";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://pecl.php.net/package/APCu";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu_bc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu_bc/default.nix
index 448c25bee64b..e487a075dbde 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu_bc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/apcu_bc/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ buildPecl {
     mv $out/lib/php/extensions/apc.so $out/lib/php/extensions/apcu_bc.so
   '';
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
-  meta.broken = lib.versionAtLeast php.version "8";
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "APCu Backwards Compatibility Module";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://pecl.php.net/package/apcu_bc";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+    broken = versionAtLeast php.version "8";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/ast/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/ast/default.nix
index fb609b9f04f2..03cd439867a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/ast/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/ast/default.nix
@@ -6,5 +6,10 @@ buildPecl {
   version = "1.0.10";
   sha256 = "13s5r1szd80g1mqickghdd38mvjkwss221322mmbrykcfgp4fs30";
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Exposes the abstract syntax tree generated by PHP";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    homepage = "https://pecl.php.net/package/ast";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/couchbase/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/couchbase/default.nix
index 6d6bdf76e40c..0b34ffe780a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/couchbase/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/couchbase/default.nix
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ buildPecl {
     '')
   ];
 
-  meta.broken = lib.versionAtLeast php.version "8.0";
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Couchbase Server PHP extension";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    homepage = "https://docs.couchbase.com/php-sdk/current/project-docs/sdk-release-notes.html";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+    broken = versionAtLeast php.version "8.0";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/igbinary/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/igbinary/default.nix
index 7a321cc90b4e..9e710f3c3d1e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/igbinary/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/igbinary/default.nix
@@ -10,5 +10,10 @@ buildPecl {
   makeFlags = [ "phpincludedir=$(dev)/include" ];
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Binary serialization for PHP";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/igbinary/igbinary/";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/imagick/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/imagick/default.nix
index 744ba2302f7b..1af4f1a23b47 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/imagick/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/imagick/default.nix
@@ -23,5 +23,10 @@ buildPecl {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
   buildInputs = [ pcre2 ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Imagick is a native php extension to create and modify images using the ImageMagick API";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://pecl.php.net/package/imagick";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/mailparse/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/mailparse/default.nix
index 820bbbdbad6b..1981b3d6aea2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/mailparse/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/mailparse/default.nix
@@ -11,5 +11,10 @@ buildPecl {
     echo "#define HAVE_MBSTRING 1" >> config.h
   '';
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Mailparse is an extension for parsing and working with email messages";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://pecl.php.net/package/mailparse";
+    maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/maxminddb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/maxminddb/default.nix
index 9a5a96e15c23..ae7ef3d0602f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/maxminddb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/maxminddb/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ buildPecl {
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "C extension that is a drop-in replacement for MaxMind\\Db\\Reader";
     license = with licenses; [ asl20 ];
+    homepage = "https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-php";
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ ajs124 das_j ] ++ teams.php.members;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/memcached/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/memcached/default.nix
index 4880e08e0629..0aea58572cba 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/memcached/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/memcached/default.nix
@@ -26,5 +26,10 @@ buildPecl {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
   buildInputs = [ cyrus_sasl zlib ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "PHP extension for interfacing with memcached via libmemcached library";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/mongodb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/mongodb/default.nix
index d0e5e545f6b9..f8cd990d2670 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/mongodb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/mongodb/default.nix
@@ -17,5 +17,10 @@ buildPecl {
     pcre2
   ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security;
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "MongoDB driver for PHP";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    homepage = "https://docs.mongodb.com/drivers/php/";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/oci8/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/oci8/default.nix
index eeaffb4b7fc9..eb65b5a27cda 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/oci8/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/oci8/default.nix
@@ -11,5 +11,10 @@ buildPecl {
     sed -i -e 's|OCISDKMANINC=`.*$|OCISDKMANINC="${oracle-instantclient.dev}/include"|' config.m4
   '';
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Extension for Oracle Database";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://pecl.php.net/package/oci8";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pcov/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pcov/default.nix
index 0583f776e56a..8511ccbebc54 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pcov/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pcov/default.nix
@@ -8,5 +8,10 @@ buildPecl {
 
   buildInputs = [ pcre2 ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A self contained php-code-coverage compatible driver for PHP.";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/krakjoe/pcov";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdlib/default.nix
index e217edd29ef7..5a1e431d52d8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdlib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdlib/default.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ buildPecl {
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A PHP extension for Dlib";
     license = with licenses; [ mit ];
+    homepage = "https://github.com/goodspb/pdlib";
     maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdo_sqlsrv/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdo_sqlsrv/default.nix
index d80944ada09f..ab7e6e71fea5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdo_sqlsrv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pdo_sqlsrv/default.nix
@@ -10,5 +10,10 @@ buildPecl {
 
   buildInputs = [ unixODBC ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ libiconv ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/php_excel/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/php_excel/default.nix
index 4effddaed494..0930926a06e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/php_excel/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/php_excel/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ buildPecl {
     "--with-libxl-libdir=${libxl}/lib"
   ];
 
-  meta.broken = lib.versionAtLeast php.version "8.0";
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "PHP Extension interface to the Excel writing/reading library";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel";
+    maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+    broken = lib.versionAtLeast php.version "8.0";
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/phpmd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/phpmd/default.nix
index fde674701eb2..bf6979f88eae 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/phpmd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/phpmd/default.nix
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 let
   pname = "phpmd";
   version = "2.8.2";
-
-  isPhp74 = lib.versionAtLeast php.version "7.4";
 in
 mkDerivation {
   inherit pname version;
@@ -28,6 +26,6 @@ mkDerivation {
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     homepage = "https://phpmd.org/";
     maintainers = teams.php.members;
-    broken = !isPhp74;
+    broken = versionAtLeast php.version "7.4";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pinba/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pinba/default.nix
index 4c1b42183ba7..0373e74d9fca 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/pinba/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/pinba/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ buildPecl {
       Pinba is a MySQL storage engine that acts as a realtime monitoring and
       statistics server for PHP using MySQL as a read-only interface.
     '';
+    license = licenses.lgpl2Plus;
     homepage = "http://pinba.org/";
     maintainers = teams.php.members;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/rdkafka/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/rdkafka/default.nix
index c8dea9463d66..1b963a01ad5d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/rdkafka/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/rdkafka/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ buildPecl {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Kafka client based on librdkafka";
+    license = licenses.mit;
     homepage = "https://github.com/arnaud-lb/php-rdkafka";
     maintainers = teams.php.members;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/redis/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/redis/default.nix
index fedc7a7ffde2..35e9a909b377 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/redis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/redis/default.nix
@@ -14,5 +14,10 @@ buildPecl {
     hash
   ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "PHP extension for interfacing with Redis";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/smbclient/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/smbclient/default.nix
index 0b485e048052..65cfad9ea3ad 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/smbclient/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/smbclient/default.nix
@@ -10,5 +10,10 @@ buildPecl {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
   buildInputs = [ samba ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "PHP wrapper for libsmbclient";
+    license = licenses.bsd2;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/eduardok/libsmbclient-php";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/sqlsrv/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/sqlsrv/default.nix
index 4522129b2aa3..37ff1cb187ee 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/sqlsrv/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/sqlsrv/default.nix
@@ -10,5 +10,10 @@ buildPecl {
     unixODBC
   ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ libiconv ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix
index 56341be436a0..eaadb4b1f544 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/xdebug/default.nix
@@ -11,5 +11,10 @@ buildPecl {
 
   zendExtension = true;
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Provides functions for function traces and profiling";
+    license = licenses.php301;
+    homepage = "https://xdebug.org/";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/php-packages/yaml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/php-packages/yaml/default.nix
index 9bd30ff4e3c4..ef58b315faee 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/php-packages/yaml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/php-packages/yaml/default.nix
@@ -10,5 +10,10 @@ buildPecl {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
 
-  meta.maintainers = lib.teams.php.members;
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "YAML-1.1 parser and emitter";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    homepage = "http://bd808.com/pecl-file_formats-yaml/";
+    maintainers = teams.php.members;
+  };
 }